The Other Languages of Europe

Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-85359-509-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Extra, Guus

Gorter, Durk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Guus Extra and Durk Gorter: Comparative Perspectives on Regional and Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural Europe

Part 1: Regional Languages in Europe

Jasone Cenoz: Basque in Spain and France

Colin Williams: Welsh in Great Britain

Boyd Robertson: Gaelic in Scotland

Durk Gorter, Alex Riemersma and Jehannes Ytsma: Frisian in the Netherlands

Brigitta Busch: Slovenian in Carinthia

Leena Huss: The National Minority Languages in Sweden

Anna Østern: Swedish in Finland

Part 2: Immigrant Languages in Europe

Sally Boyd: Immigrant Languages in Sweden

Ingrid Gogolin and Hans Reich: Immigrant Languages in Federal Germany

Tim van der Avoird, Peter Broeder and Guus Extra: Immigrant Minority Languages in the Netherlands

Vivian Edwards: Community Languages in the United Kingdom

Dominique Caubet: Maghrebine Arabic in France

Bernabé López García and Laura Mijares Molina: Moroccan Children and Arabic in Spanish Schools

Peter Bakker: Romani in Europe

Part 3: Outlook from Abroad

John Edwards: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Canada

Reynaldo F. Macías: Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in California

Neville Alexander: Majority and Minority Languages in South Africa

Uldis Ozolins and Michael Clyne: Immigration and Language Policy in Australia

Amitav Choudhry: Linguistic Minorities in India

Kutlay Yagmur: Languages in Turkey

Jilali Saíb: Berber and Arabic in Morocco

Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Gorter, Durk
Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque research professor in the Department of Education Sciences at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain. He conducts research on multilingual education, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes; topics on which he has published widely.

Extra, Guus
Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.

Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.

Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.